Monday, 31 July 2017

Chandrapur or Chanda as known earlier is the headquarters of
Chandrapur District of Maharashtra state, India. It is also nicknamed as Black Gold City because of the coal mines located here. Tadoba National Park (Tiger Reserve) is also in the same district.

Though the area was originally
inhabited by Tribal / Adivasi people belonging to Gond Community, now the town
part is of modern look. Gond/Gondi community is Adivasi people of central
India, spread over the present States of Madhya Pradesh, eastern part of Maharashtra
(Vidarbha) and Chhattisgarh – earlier known as Madhya Bharat with Nagpur as the capital. Tribes as a whole in
India have no cast system and have their own form of worship, rules and
regulations. But now many of them are influenced by outsiders and adopted
modern way of life.

Chandrapur is also considered to be the single place where
the Tribe community who captured power from intruders and had their own fort and other
establishments. The remains are still existing. Some photographs are here.

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Thriprayar
Temple is a very famous and ancient temple. The temple is dedicated to Lord
Rama. It is also one of the temple included in the Nalambalam [Four Temples - Sree
Rama Temple,Thriprayar
– Koodalmanikyam (SreeBharata)
Temple, Irinjalakuda -Sree
Lakshmana Temple,Moozhikkulam
-Sree Shathruknha
Temple,Payammal]
pilgrimage of Hindu religion. ‘Thriprayar Ekadasi’ is the main festival and very famous.

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It
is on the west bank of Canoly Canal (Thriprayar) situated at the boundary of
Valapad and Nattika Panchayaths in Thrissur District of Kerala. It is
conveniently connected by road NH-17 Panvel-EdapallyNational Highway and almost in the
midway of the famous Guruvayur Temple and Kodungallur Temple. Frequent buses
are also available from Thrissur which is connected by Rail from all over
India.

Other nearby
pilgrimage centres are:-
St. Thomas Church, Palayur established by St. Thomas,Marthoma Pontifical Shrine at
Azhikode where St. Thomas first landed in India in A.D.52, Cheraman Palli (Juma
Masjid), Kodungallur – first Masjid in India built in A.D.629.